CYCLIST KILLED
LOSES HIS HEAD PICKED UP LIFELESS, i Per Press Association. WAIROA, January 25. A fatal accident occurred early yesterday afternoon, when a Maori youth, Wi Te Kauru, collided with a car driven by Walter McGregor, a weffknown . Wairoa representative footballer. Deceased was riding a bicycle at North Clyde against a neavy wind with his head down. McGregor, who was following behind in a service car, pulled out to pass the cyclist, who apparently lost his head as the motorist swung to the side of the road to avoid him, for he swerved into the car, which was damaged, and the youth was picked up lifeless. An inquest showed that the accident appears to have been unavoidable.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 6
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